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Daily Rendezvous Governor Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri has congratulated Chafari Shadrach Kanya for emerging the Director General of the West Africa Gas Pipeline Authority.  Commending her victory at the just concluded elections, Governor Fintiri said that the organisation made the right choice.  Chafari Shadrach Kanya, a lawyer by training who emerged Director General hails from Hong Local Government area of Adamawa state and is the first Nigerian and first female DG of the multinational economy-based organisation. Rt. Hon. Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri describes her victory as "Path-breaking, and a matter of immense pride not just to WAGPA, but for all Adamawa and Nigerian citizens. "Congratulations on your momentous victory". He said. The Governor said as number one citizen of Adamawa, "I could not be prouder to congratulate the next Director General. I know Chafari will do the job with the best interests of everyone, whether or not she had their votes". Governor...

Daily Rendezvous Nigeria has been drawn to play Ghana in the third round of FIFA Qatar 2022 world cup draw. Of the ten African countries in the qualifiers the fixtures Dr as Follows: Egypt Vs Senegal Cameroon vs Algeria Ghana vs Nigeria DR Congo VS Morocco Mali VS Tunisia All the matches were to be played between 24th-29th March, 2022. The draw was held at 22nd January, 2022 at Douala, Cameroon. The seedings were based on the November 2021 FIFA World Rankings.

Daily Rendezvous - Ranks 9th Assembly High on Performance, Legislative Diplomacy The Chairman House Committee on Foreign Affairs, Rt. Hon.( Dr.) Yusuf Buba Yakub, has endorsed the 2022 Appropriations Act as forward-looking and a progressive movement for Nigerian Foreign Missions. Yusuf Yakub Buba said, the 2022 Act has given Nigerian missions the Independence to carry out their duties without a recourse to ministerial approvals. Buba explained that this improvement in the 2022 Act will go a long way in empowering Nigerian Ambassadors at post to spend funds appropriated as Capital Allocations in their Missions without seeking the extra approval of the Ministry headquarters in Abuja.  Yakub Buba made this known in a press statement issued by his Special Adviser on Media and Public Affairs, Anya-Akpta Pius, and made available to Newsmen over the weekend. Buba said, "The powers granted the Foreign Missions in the Act recently signed by Mr. President will among ...

Daily Rendezvous House of Representatives has commenced investigations into alleged disappearance of about 178,459 arms and ammunition, belonging to the Nigeria Police Force (NPF). It also called on Inspector General of Police (IGP) to urgently apprehend those culpable for depletion of the Force’s armoury. The resolutions followed adoption of a motion of urgent public importance sponsored by Deputy Minority Leader, Toby Okechukwu. Disappearance of the arms and ammunition was contained in the 2019 report of the Office of the Auditor General of the Federation. According to the lawmaker, the audit of Arms Movement Register, Monthly Returns of Arms and Ammunition, and Ammunition Register at the Armoury Section of Police revealed that lost firearms, as at December 2018, was 178,459 pieces. Okechukwu explained that out of 178,459 missing arms, 88,078 were AK-47 rifles, 3,907 assorted rifles and pistols across different police formations, which could not be accounted f...

Daily Rendezvous Nigeria needs $2.7bn investment to stabilise petroleum products supply — NNPC THE National Economic Council, NEC, on Thursday said that decision on the removal of the subsidy on petroleum will be made in June when the provision for its payment in the 2022 budget expires. NEC said though conservation on subsidy removal has been going on it was yet to take a position on it. The council chaired by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo met at the Conference Hall, Presidential villa, Abuja on Thursday, with the declaration that since the Nigerian National Petroleum Company, NNPC, Limited has become a limited liability company, it must be run differently. Fielding questions while briefing State House correspondents on the outcome of the meeting, the governor of Nasarawa state, Abdulahi Sule said it was understandable that the provision for the payment of the subsidy is made in the 2022 budget only until June. Governor Sule, flanked by his Edo state counterpart, Godwin Oba...

Daily Rendezvous A total of thirty-seven (37) terrorist elements in the northeast, with seventeen (17) said to have been arrested. Twenty-One (21) assorted arms as well as one hundred and seventeen rounds of different calibres of ammunition, and four gun trucks were captured from the terrorists. The Director, Defence Media Operations, Major General Benard Onyeuko disclosed this during the bi-weekly press briefing on the operational activities of the Armed Forces of Nigeria within the last two weeks, held at the Defence Headquarters, Abuja. He said in the last two weeks, a total of sixteen abducted civilians have been rescued, while eight hundred and sixty-three terrorists and their families have surrendered to the troops. “Within the past 2 weeks, own troops aggressively sustained their operations on the terrorists, bandits and other criminal elements by maintaining offensive engagements in all theatres of operation within the country, which recorded appreciable...